Karthik Valmeekam

PhD student, Arizona State University

Joined

February 2022

Names

Karthik Valmeekam (Preferred)

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****@asu.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

Arizona State University (asu.edu)

2021 – 2026

MS student

Arizona State University (asu.edu)

2019 – 2021

Undergrad student

Vellore Institute of Technology (vit.ac.in)

2015 – 2019

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Expertise

Automated Planning

Present

Large Language Model

Present

Publications

RL in Name Only? Analyzing the Structural Assumptions in RL post-training for LLMs
Soumya Rani Samineni, Durgesh Kalwar, Karthik Valmeekam, Kaya Stechly, Subbarao Kambhampati
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity
Vardhan Palod, Karthik Valmeekam, Kaya Stechly, Subbarao Kambhampati
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Internal Value Functions: Leveraging Hidden States for Efficient Test-Time Scaling in Large Reasoning Models
Khiem Pham, Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, Saket Dingliwal, Bhavana Ganesh, Karthik Valmeekam, Xiangchen Song, Vivek Govindan, Beidi Chen, Sravan Babu Bodapati, Aram Galstyan
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond Semantics: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
Kaya Stechly, Karthik Valmeekam, Vardhan Palod, Atharva Gundawar, Subbarao Kambhampati
- LAW
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond Semantics: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens
Kaya Stechly, Karthik Valmeekam, Vardhan Palod, Atharva Gundawar, Subbarao Kambhampati
- FoRLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
RL in Name Only? Analyzing the Structural Assumptions in RL post-training for LLMs
Soumya Rani Samineni, Durgesh Kalwar, Karthik Valmeekam, Kaya Stechly, Subbarao Kambhampati
- FoRLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
RL in Name Only? Analyzing the Structural Assumptions in RL post-training for LLMs
Soumya Rani Samineni, Durgesh Kalwar, Karthik Valmeekam, Kaya Stechly, Subbarao Kambhampati
- LAW
- Readers: Everyone
Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!
Subbarao Kambhampati, Kaya Stechly, Karthik Valmeekam, Lucas Paul Saldyt, Siddhant Bhambri, Vardhan Palod, Atharva Gundawar, Soumya Rani Samineni, Durgesh Kalwar, Upasana Biswas
- CogInterp @ NeurIPS 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!
Subbarao Kambhampati, Kaya Stechly, Karthik Valmeekam, Lucas Paul Saldyt, Siddhant Bhambri, Vardhan Palod, Atharva Gundawar, Soumya Rani Samineni, Durgesh Kalwar, Upasana Biswas
- LAW
- Readers: Everyone
A Systematic Evaluation of the Planning and Scheduling Abilities of the Reasoning Model o1
Karthik Valmeekam, Kaya Stechly, Atharva Gundawar, Subbarao Kambhampati
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone

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